Paula Deen Launches Food Line, Shops Around Food Competition Show

Paula Deen's dinners will move off the TV screen and onto supermarket shelves. According to the Buffalo News the Queen of Butter, and more recently infamous face of Diabetes, will be launching Paula Deen Foods with Buffalo-based Nanco Group.

It is said that the products will arrive at a store near you in early 2013, and while there's no word on the exact products, Nanco partner and executive vice president of Paula Deen Foods, Nick Gallegos, says the foods will be both perishable and non-perishable items. Will they be based on Paula's new lifestyle? So far reports are that the female host famous for her fat-laden recipes will offer both "traditional" versions and lower-calorie items in the line-up. Gallegos told the Buffalo News, "Its got to be delicious, and it's got to be authentic, or she wont put her name on it and won't allow us to put her name on it."

In other Deen news, Variety reports that the celeb chef was in Los Angeles last week meeting with Zodiak USA about creating the English version of a popular Italian food competition show called Cuochi e Fiamme (or Cooks and Flames). The American version is currently being called, "Food Chain," pits two teams of two chefs against each other for three courses. Deen is hoping to be the host and at the moment is not pitching to the Food Network.

Are you curious about Deen's new products? Do you think its time for Deen to bring her big personality to a cooking competition show?

Posted by Kiri Tannenbaum

Kiri Tannenbaum is a contributing editor at Delish. Her love of food was sparked by an extended stay in Florence, Italy, where she assisted in the kitchen, shaving bittersweet chocolate over creamy, homemade tiramisu. Though she has no Italian blood in her lineage, Kiri always makes her sauce from scratch and hopes one day to adopt an Italian grandmother. Read More

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